Monday 30th March 2026

January Pack the Backpack Winner: Savana Berg

Pack the Backpack, presented by Central Office Supply, a division of Minuteman and Kix 101.1! Each month during the school year, we will be awarding $101 to a Kix Country classroom to help out with supplies. We will award the prize on the last Wednesday of the month. You can listen to each new winner at 8:30a on the Morning Kix Start.

Our January winner is Savana Berg, Special Education Teacher at South Hamilton Elementary.. Take a listen to our surprise phone call to Gena below!

Nominate your Kix Country class by submitting a letter to us at backpack@kixweb.com.

 

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Jonathan Knight

The List for Friday, March 27th 2026

Welcome to The List,

Carrie Underwood says her boys can sing, but she is not handing out tiny little record deals just because Mom can hit a note. Her oldest is already a mini-Carrie, super into music, but she says the music business can wait until he is older and knows who he is. One minute Mom is on stage in sequins, next minute she is making dinner like nothing happened. Country queen by night, casserole ninja by six.

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Morgan Wallen says he is done hiding behind excuses, and that might be the most grown-up sentence he has ever said out loud. He told CMT that back then, there was always something to blame when things went sideways. Now he says if he messes up, it is on him. Accountability..

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Netflix just raised prices again, and at this point your streaming bill is starting to look like a car payment. The ad plan is now $8.99, standard is $19.99, and premium jumps to $26.99. Remember when cutting the cord was supposed to save money? Now we are all just paying cable prices with extra steps. Congrats, we played ourselves.

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The iHeartRadio Music Awards wrapped up last night, and if you are guessing who won everything, go ahead and say it with me. Taylor Swift. Again. Save everybody a few hours. Show up, wave, collect hardware, repeat.

You can catch The List, weekday afternoons at 4:20 with Jonathan Knight. Only on Iowa’s BEST Country KIX 101.1

 
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At The Movies

At the Movies for Thursday, March 26th 2026

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Join us Thursday during the Drive at Five for ‘At The Movies” brought to you by North Grand Cinema in Ames..

In Theaters this weekend: “They Will Kill You”

Is a blood-soaked, high-octane horror-action-comedy in which a young woman must survive the night at the “Virgil”.  A mysterious and twisted death-trap of a lair, big screen battle of epic kills and wickedly dark humor.

*** LANGUAGE WARNING IN TRAILER***

https://youtu.be/AqNFJUihSHg?si=K0-fsZxSej2eyl-M

 “They Will Kill You” is rated: R

Stars: Zazie Beetz and Tom Felton

 AT THE MOVIES...Thursday’s at 5:40, brought to you by North Grand Cinema in Ames and IBC KIX 101.1….

 
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